A female journalist has been threatened with genital mutilation after exposing the practice in Liberia. Mae Azango, a reporter for the daily...
Liberia: Reporting on genital mutilation draws threats
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CATEGORY: Africa
Standing in the queue
To celebrate Index’s 40th birthday, our archive is open to the public for 40 days from 26 March. It’s a unique literary heritage, a roll-call of the greatest authors in the 20th century canon standing up for free expression.
In 1994, South African writer, activist and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer witnessed the end of apartheid in South Africa
Art For Peace heals Kenya’s wounds
“Slum is a tricky word. It conjures up images out of control. The threatening. The miserable. The lawless,” thus wrote Richard Swift in his article...
Somalia: Journalist shot dead in Galkayo
A Somalian journalist has been shot dead by gunmen. Ali Ahmed Abdi who worked for a Somali news website was shot in the head several times by masked...
Senegal: Journalists threatened, assaulted amid election
A number of attacks and threats have been made against journalists covering the Sengalese presidential elections. At least 12 incidents of threats...
Somalia: Radio journalist murdered
A radio journalist has been shot dead by two unidentified men in Somalia. Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, nicknamed Kadaf, was the manager of...
Information or Honesty? Life on a very isolated island
Over 70 per cent of East Africa's population lives in rural communities: despite the proliferation of radio stations, weekly and daily newspapers,...
Sudan: Newspapers confiscated for publishing statements by Islamist opposition leader
The entire print-run of two Sudanese newspapers were seized by The National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) yesterday. Al-Tayar and...
Djibouti: Radio journalist threatened and tortured for 24 hours
A radio journalist was abducted and tortured by police last week in Djibouti, Africa. Farah Abadid Hildid of radio station La Voix de Djibouti, was...
Sudan: Publisher stops press to protest censorship
The publisher of an independent Sudanese newspaper has withheld an edition of the paper to protest censorship. National Intelligence and Security...
Freedom of expression in Africa. Index on Censorship covers free speech, freedom of religion, artistic freedom on the continent of Africa.